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Sachs, Stephanie Kay – Journal of Teacher Education, 2004
Urban schools are challenged to improve teacher retention and quality. Unfortunately, research on effective teaching and attributes of effective teachers rarely has considered urban contextual influences. The purposes of the current study were (a) to develop and validate an instrument for evaluating urban teacher attributes and (b) to determine…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Teacher Persistence
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Tal, Tali; Krajcik, Joseph S.; Blumenfeld, Phyllis C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
What teaching practices foster inquiry and promote students to learn challenging subject matter in urban schools? Inquiry-based instruction and successful inquiry learning and teaching in project-based science (PBS) were described in previous studies (Brown & Campione, [1990]; Crawford, [1999]; Krajcik, Blumenfeld, Marx, Bass, & Fredricks,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Science Projects